NICTER Reports
We summarize the cyber attack data collected by observing darknet traffic or various honeypots as an annual report.
NICTER Observation Report 2024
This report mainly summarizes below information:
- Darknet Observation Statistics for 2024
- Total Annual Observed Packets
- Daily Trend of Observed Packets
- Packet Count by Destination Port
- Internet-wide Scanners
- Analysis of Observed Events
- Trend of Mirai-Infected Hosts
- Trend of IoT Bot-Infected Hosts in Japan
- InfectedSlurs Infection Activity in Japan
- IoT Bot Infections Affecting LTE Routers in Japan
- Observation of RapperBot Infection
- Observation of DRDoS Attacks
- DRDoS Attack Observation Results
- DRDoS Attack Case Studies
Key figures and tables in the report are shown below.



NICTER Observation Report 2016 - 2023 (only in Japanese)
- NICTER Observation Report 2023 (4.6MB)
- NICTER Observation Report 2022 (4.4MB)
- NICTER Observation Report 2021 (3.2MB)
- NICTER Observation Report 2020 (3.4MB)
- NICTER Observation Report 2019 (2.1MB)
- NICTER Observation Report 2018 (2.3MB)
- NICTER Observation Report 2017 (1.5MB)
- NICTER Observation Report 2016 (460KB)
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